Safety Tips for Changing Brake Pads

Video Transcript

MARK BLOCKER: In this segment we're going to cover some safety tips on any time you're working on an automotive vehicle. Any time you work with any type of tools, hand tools, cleaners, any of that nature, you want to make sure you have eye protection on. I wear corrective lenses so I've always got my--another thing working with the chemicals, you want to have hand protection. Some types of rubber gloves, you can use the mechanic's type gloves that I use regularly or the disposable latex or neoprene. There are a lot of different products out there available for hand protection. Also, there are some safety requirements anytime you're jacking a vehicle. We're doing the rear brakes on this vehicle so the rear end's going to be raised up, so you want to make sure you have the vehicle in park. The parking brake set at this time. We'll later need to release it to do some of the servicing, but part of jacking up, we want to make sure that's set. Another tip on jacking concerning safety when you're raising the rear of the vehicle, you want to make sure that the front vehicles are pointed directly forward on the car. They are not at this time. I will correct that issue before we jack it up. Some of the other things involved safety on cars, when we have this vehicle jacked up and the tire removed, you want to make sure that you have the load supported properly by a jack stand, a wood block or another type of device. You don't want to rely on the jack to carry your load. And placing the jack stands underneath will stabilize it and allow you to work on the vehicle safely. Any time you're up underneath a vehicle, you want to make sure that you have the system of jack stands properly placed under good strong frame points so the vehicle is not going to rock or move or in any way have a chance of coming off those jack stand and falling down and injuring you. A weight of an automobile coming down will crush a limb. It can seriously injure and or kill you. So, it is real close you pay attention to what you're doing when working around with vehicles that are jacked up especially if it involves you being underneath them. That should conclude our safety segment, please watch our next segment on jacking the vehicle.

Watch these related videos

• 
  Jacking Up Car to Replace Brake Pads

  playlist Views: 1,366

• 
  Safety Tips for Changing Brake Pads

  playlist Views: 1,140

• 
  How to Lower a Car Jack

  playlist Views: 714

• 
  How to Adjust Front Brake Pads

  playlist Views: 1,782

• 
  Safety When Replacing a Valve Cover Gasket

  playlist Views: 1,400

• 
  Tools for Changing Front Brake Pads

  playlist Views: 3,027

Community Members who...

• Favorited this Video
• Rated This Video

Top Tags